An Idle Spoon
I have a spoon laid on a set of tissues on a plate. Not being used, no purpose to be staying there, yet waiting to be used. It’s as if a magnificent purpose is being planned for it. Hence the spoon is just waiting, shiny and clean, ready to take over the ultimate task which will be bestowed upon it once the time is ripe. I feel I’m no different from that spoon.
It might go as a sugar scooper for today. Tomorrow, maybe an upgrade to a soup sipper. The next day, back to scoop salt. A down, then up, then down. At end of every task, ends up in the sink to make it shiny, clean and ready for the next task. But this spoon shows some promise. It is resilient. The scratches show it had been through tough times, still it sits ready for the ultimate task. Maybe today, a hundred days from today or a decade later. This spoon doesn’t seem like others which are just bunched up in a glass to be used for anything. This spoon isn’t for anything. It is for one thing and all the other tasks are just waiting period for that one thing.
Maybe that one thing had already passed and the spoon is in its retirement. Yet it doesn’t show any weakness. The resilience is strong. Maybe a task of a lifetime was already done, still the spoon likes to climb higher. So, an ever higher purpose is being bestowed upon as we speak and it’s waiting; for that next bigger purpose.
Will the spoon retire at least after that? Doesn’t look so. After that higher purpose, maybe it is cleaned, dried and still shows promise. The waiter thinks, “Should I even send it for anything higher? This spoon had already been through so much. I could buy a new one with modern design and a different material.” Well, spoons can’t talk. Yet the waiter is attracted to the resilience of this spoon. Maybe on more try? Just this time?
Spoon doesn’t say no.